Personally, I had a hard period of constantly struggling before, so I'm feeling extremely emotionally connected with this story and Suzume. Surely, I think this drama deserves a much better rating for its excellent plot, great characters and their developments, wonderful sense of time period, and sets. After seeing the shocking low rating of 6.8 on IMDb, so I decided to write this review.
If you didn't know, an asadora is a type of drama that updates on the morning of weekdays in Japan, with each episode about ten minutes long. The plot is always about a girl chasing her dream and finally achieve it since most of the audience is a housewife. Many protagonists in an asadora are important figures in Japanese history. For example, Hanako in Hanako and Anne was one of the first female translators in Japan, who translated Anne of Green Gables, Asa ga Kita was based on the story of the first female university in Japan's founder, and etc. However, their legendary lives are too special. I find it difficult to sympathize with their story. In contrast, Susume in this series is a way more normal girl. After watching this asadora, I started to feel much more optimistic, because this story shows that, even though you were just a normal person, you could have your own version of happiness and have a wonderful life.
I saw many people criticized her personality and her failure in chasing her dream. But the beauty of her and the story is that after her first love disconnected their relationship, unable to find a job, rejected by Masato, had to say goodbye to Ritsu, found him got married to someone else, failed to become a good mangaka, got married to Ryoji, who he left the family behind to chase his dream, forced to become a single mom, had to clean up the mess her business partner left after their company went bankrupt, started to sale food on the street for her kid to learn figure skating in Tokyo, she still stayed optimistic, accepted the reality after all, and worked hard for her love ones. Her story proves a conventional but true idea, don't feel over frustrated when you struggle, because, in this long journey called life, the best is yet to come.
If you didn't know, an asadora is a type of drama that updates on the morning of weekdays in Japan, with each episode about ten minutes long. The plot is always about a girl chasing her dream and finally achieve it since most of the audience is a housewife. Many protagonists in an asadora are important figures in Japanese history. For example, Hanako in Hanako and Anne was one of the first female translators in Japan, who translated Anne of Green Gables, Asa ga Kita was based on the story of the first female university in Japan's founder, and etc. However, their legendary lives are too special. I find it difficult to sympathize with their story. In contrast, Susume in this series is a way more normal girl. After watching this asadora, I started to feel much more optimistic, because this story shows that, even though you were just a normal person, you could have your own version of happiness and have a wonderful life.
I saw many people criticized her personality and her failure in chasing her dream. But the beauty of her and the story is that after her first love disconnected their relationship, unable to find a job, rejected by Masato, had to say goodbye to Ritsu, found him got married to someone else, failed to become a good mangaka, got married to Ryoji, who he left the family behind to chase his dream, forced to become a single mom, had to clean up the mess her business partner left after their company went bankrupt, started to sale food on the street for her kid to learn figure skating in Tokyo, she still stayed optimistic, accepted the reality after all, and worked hard for her love ones. Her story proves a conventional but true idea, don't feel over frustrated when you struggle, because, in this long journey called life, the best is yet to come.
